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Security News Update for the Week Ending August 4, 2023

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Will Expire Every five or six years, section 702 of FISA expires. Congress continues to do this because it doesn’t trust the government to restrain itself. Section 702 enables limited bulk data surveillance which some constraints on viewing data of Americans vs. foreigners. In case you haven’t […]

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Is Microsoft “Grossly Irresponsible” for Not Fixing Bugs

In light of the most recent Chinese attack on Azure, several people are speaking out. Amit Yoran, chairman of security firm Tenable, former president of RSA and former Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division director, says this in a LinkedIn post: Cloud providers have long espoused the shared responsibility model. That model is irretrievably broken […]

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Remote Workers Still More Vulnerable Than They Should Be

Since it seems that fully remote work and hybrid work are not going away anytime soon, we need to make sure that remote workers are secure. It is not going away because the best employees will find another job rather than be forced to come into the office. Forester Research says 68% of remote workers […]

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Between Volt Typhoon and Insider Threat, the Pentagon Had a Bad Week

While the Pentagon grinds agonizingly slowly towards improved cybersecurity with CMMC, the hackers continue to make them look like amateurs. Congress doesn’t seem to be much help in the crisis. Last week the DoD Inspector General crucified the DoD’s operational units for doing a uniformly bad job at protecting Controlled Unclassified Information or CUI. Government […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 28, 2023

Criminal or Whistleblower? The hacker behind the Football Leaks scandal, Rui Pinto, a 34 year old Portuguese national, currently faces 377 charges for blowing the lid off the tax fraud, corruption and other wrongdoing in the $3 billion European soccer business. One club alone, Manchester City, faced over 100 counts of financial misconduct as a […]

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